Code 22

After my own look at the payroll records released I am backing off the Democrats.com claim that they show no 1972 service after April. They show something going on in October and November but it is not clear what. The days credited for October and November first show up in the next quarter and they are listed as "inactive" duty days.

Looking at this pdf on page 4, which is labeled 4th quarter 1972, shows 0 days of service for the 4th Qtr. However, page 5 for the first quarter of 1973 in the same pdf show Oct. 28, 29 and Nov. 11-14 as code 22.

Corrected Feb 12. Interpreting codes - based on this pdf we know that Bush had 19 days of active duty in from May 27 1973 till the end of his service. That makes code 50 active duty. That leaves code 22 Inactive duty which can earn 2 points which matches the document total of 16 points. All of Bush's active duty occured in May 1973 for his May 72 - May 73 year. All of his inactive duty occured from October to May for that year.

In the first quarter of 1973 he was backdated for inactive duty days. I do not know the difference right now between active and inactive duty days and I don't know if the fact that the October and November days did not show up in the original records for the fourth quarter is significant.

I do know that Harvey Gough, a 32 year veteran of the Texas National Guard has come forward. He was the Warrant Officer, C4, at Camp Mabry.

Gough says that Dan Bartlett and Danny James came to him at Camp Mabry in 1993, right after Bush was inaugurated as Governor, and deleted portions of Bush's TANG file.

I do know that six months were added to Bush's six-year enlistment.